Album met voorstellingen van het Musée de Cluny en het Panthéon in Parijs c. 1920 - 1940

This is a photograph of the Musée de Cluny and the Panthéon in Paris, taken by Jan Petrus Ponstijn. It's held in an album, and seeing it like this makes me think about process, the way images accumulate meaning and history. Look at how Ponstijn captures the textures – the rough stone carvings behind the Virgin and Child. The light is flat, almost bleached, giving the whole image a ghostly quality. The surface seems to hold time itself, each detail asserting the past. My eye keeps going back to the Virgin’s face. It’s serene, almost mask-like. It makes me think of Eugène Atget, his photographs of Paris, which, like this, capture more than just buildings; they capture a mood, a feeling. Art isn’t just about what you see, it’s about what you feel, how the image resonates within you, inviting multiple interpretations.